VoIP Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Voice Over IP (VoIP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring VoIP skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 282 342
Rank change year-on-year -51 +60 -14
Permanent jobs citing VoIP 267 286 509
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.98% 0.74%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.98% 5.75% 5.50%
Number of salaries quoted 219 200 440
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,250 £23,500
25th Percentile £28,500 £26,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £32,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.56% -1.54% -17.97%
75th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £43,750
90th Percentile £65,000 £53,000 £53,875
UK median annual salary £35,000 £33,125 £34,000
% change year-on-year +5.66% -2.57% -13.66%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

VoIP falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 6,701 4,977 9,247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.11% 17.04% 13.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,917 2,673 7,070
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,625 £25,750
25th Percentile £29,750 £31,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £68,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -5.47%

VoIP
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing VoIP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

VoIP job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

VoIP
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VoIP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing VoIP

VoIP
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing VoIP in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2026.

Salary histogram for VoIP in the UK excluding London

VoIP
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VoIP within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East -24 88 £33,500 +21.82% 31
North of England -31 67 £37,500 +32.74% 17
North West +29 45 £37,500 +14.50% 10
Midlands -62 39 £32,250 -16.23% 8
South West -45 29 £31,750 -20.63% 6
East of England -21 23 £32,500 -12.03% 15
East Midlands -40 22 £30,250 -13.57% 3
West Midlands -53 17 £37,250 -47.72% 4
Yorkshire -64 17 £38,000 +35.71% 5
Wales -27 10 £49,625 +66.81% 3
Scotland +5 9 £28,000 -50.88% 2
North East -39 5 £45,000 - 2
Northern Ireland -36 1 - -
Isle of Man - 1 £59,000 - 2
VoIP
UK

VoIP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 57 (21.35%) SharePoint
2 55 (20.60%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 16 (5.99%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (3.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.12%) Trello
5 1 (0.37%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 5 (1.87%) SAP Business One
2 4 (1.50%) Line 50
3 1 (0.37%) Infor CloudSuite
3 1 (0.37%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
Cloud Services
1 136 (50.94%) Microsoft 365
2 59 (22.10%) Azure
3 46 (17.23%) Entra ID
4 23 (8.61%) OneDrive
5 10 (3.75%) Google Workspace
6 8 (3.00%) Twilio
7 7 (2.62%) Power Platform
7 7 (2.62%) SaaS
8 6 (2.25%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (1.87%) IaaS
10 4 (1.50%) AWS
10 4 (1.50%) Mimecast
10 4 (1.50%) Power Automate
10 4 (1.50%) Viva Engage
11 3 (1.12%) Asana
11 3 (1.12%) ClickUp
11 3 (1.12%) GitHub
11 3 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (1.12%) Stripe
12 1 (0.37%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 82 (30.71%) Firewall
2 72 (26.97%) VPN
3 64 (23.97%) DNS
4 61 (22.85%) Wi-Fi
5 55 (20.60%) DHCP
6 38 (14.23%) WAN
7 35 (13.11%) VLAN
8 32 (11.99%) LAN
9 27 (10.11%) Unified Communications
10 25 (9.36%) PBX
11 24 (8.99%) TCP/IP
12 20 (7.49%) Broadband
13 15 (5.62%) WebEx
14 14 (5.24%) Network Security
15 13 (4.87%) MPLS
15 13 (4.87%) Remote Desktop
16 12 (4.49%) BGP
16 12 (4.49%) Wireshark
17 11 (4.12%) DECT
17 11 (4.12%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (4.87%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.25%) Power BI
3 4 (1.50%) FileMaker
4 3 (1.12%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.12%) MySQL
5 1 (0.37%) GIS
Development Applications
1 5 (1.87%) JIRA
1 5 (1.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 5 (1.87%) VersionOne
2 4 (1.50%) GitLab
3 3 (1.12%) Git
General
1 107 (40.07%) Social Skills
2 78 (29.21%) Telecoms
3 23 (8.61%) Organisational Skills
4 16 (5.99%) Finance
4 16 (5.99%) Manufacturing
5 12 (4.49%) Marketing
6 11 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.37%) Legal
8 7 (2.62%) Analytical Skills
8 7 (2.62%) Military
9 5 (1.87%) Advertising
10 4 (1.50%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.12%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.37%) Billing
12 1 (0.37%) Electronics
12 1 (0.37%) Police
Job Titles
1 100 (37.45%) IT Support
2 71 (26.59%) Support Engineer
3 58 (21.72%) IT Engineer
4 54 (20.22%) IT Support Engineer
5 42 (15.73%) 2nd Line Support
6 33 (12.36%) Support Technician
7 20 (7.49%) Analyst
7 20 (7.49%) IT Support Technician
7 20 (7.49%) IT Technician
8 19 (7.12%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 18 (6.74%) Support Analyst
10 17 (6.37%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 17 (6.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 16 (5.99%) Senior
12 14 (5.24%) VoIP Engineer
13 12 (4.49%) Account Manager
13 12 (4.49%) Lead
13 12 (4.49%) Network Engineer
14 11 (4.12%) IT Analyst
14 11 (4.12%) IT Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.00%) FreeSWITCH
2 4 (1.50%) CSS
2 4 (1.50%) HTML
2 4 (1.50%) ModSecurity
2 4 (1.50%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (1.12%) 802.1X
3 3 (1.12%) Django
3 3 (1.12%) Flask
3 3 (1.12%) Jinja
3 3 (1.12%) OAuth
3 3 (1.12%) OAuth2
3 3 (1.12%) pytest
3 3 (1.12%) REST
3 3 (1.12%) RFC 2833
3 3 (1.12%) SQLAlchemy
3 3 (1.12%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 39 (14.61%) Driving Licence
2 19 (7.12%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (6.37%) Onboarding
4 16 (5.99%) Web Conferencing
5 9 (3.37%) Social Media
6 8 (3.00%) CCTV
6 8 (3.00%) FMCG
6 8 (3.00%) IVR
7 7 (2.62%) Hybrid Cloud
8 6 (2.25%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.87%) Acoustics
10 4 (1.50%) CMDB
10 4 (1.50%) iPad
10 4 (1.50%) iPhone
10 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Licensing
10 4 (1.50%) PKI
11 3 (1.12%) Client/Server
11 3 (1.12%) EPoS
11 3 (1.12%) PMI
12 2 (0.75%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 121 (45.32%) Windows
2 62 (23.22%) Windows Server
3 47 (17.60%) Windows 10
4 31 (11.61%) Linux
5 28 (10.49%) Mac OS
6 12 (4.49%) Android
7 7 (2.62%) Apple iOS
8 6 (2.25%) Windows Server 2016
8 6 (2.25%) Windows Server 2019
9 5 (1.87%) Debian
10 4 (1.50%) Ubuntu
10 4 (1.50%) Unix
11 3 (1.12%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (25.47%) Problem-Solving
2 64 (23.97%) Customer Service
3 40 (14.98%) ITIL
4 30 (11.24%) Cybersecurity
5 23 (8.61%) Service Delivery
6 22 (8.24%) CRM
6 22 (8.24%) Root Cause Analysis
7 21 (7.87%) Time Management
8 18 (6.74%) Service Management
9 17 (6.37%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (6.37%) Customer Experience
9 17 (6.37%) Disaster Recovery
9 17 (6.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 17 (6.37%) Network Management
10 16 (5.99%) Presales
11 15 (5.62%) Asset Management
11 15 (5.62%) ITSM
12 14 (5.24%) Remote Monitoring and Management
13 12 (4.49%) E-Commerce
13 12 (4.49%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 38 (14.23%) PowerShell
2 20 (7.49%) Python
3 9 (3.37%) SQL
4 5 (1.87%) Bash
5 4 (1.50%) PHP
6 3 (1.12%) C
6 3 (1.12%) C++
7 1 (0.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 47 (17.60%) Degree
2 32 (11.99%) Microsoft Certification
3 28 (10.49%) Cisco Certification
4 24 (8.99%) Security Cleared
5 22 (8.24%) CCNA
6 18 (6.74%) DBS Check
7 17 (6.37%) SC Cleared
8 15 (5.62%) DV Cleared
9 11 (4.12%) CCNP
10 8 (3.00%) CTC Cleared
11 7 (2.62%) Network+ Certification
12 6 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
13 5 (1.87%) Azure Certification
13 5 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (1.87%) CCIE
13 5 (1.87%) Chartered Engineer
13 5 (1.87%) Master's Degree
13 5 (1.87%) MCSE
13 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 4 (1.50%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (10.49%) Cyber Essentials
2 23 (8.61%) SLA
3 20 (7.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (5.99%) GDPR
5 11 (4.12%) PCI DSS
6 5 (1.87%) NIST
6 5 (1.87%) QA
7 4 (1.50%) ISO 14001
7 4 (1.50%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 98 (36.70%) Active Directory
2 37 (13.86%) Hyper-V
3 23 (8.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.00%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.25%) Docker
5 6 (2.25%) Terminal Services
6 5 (1.87%) BitLocker
7 4 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.50%) vSphere
8 3 (1.12%) Kamailio
9 1 (0.37%) Firmware
9 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (13.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (6.74%) Jamf Pro
3 8 (3.00%) Ansible
4 7 (2.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 7 (2.62%) FortiGate
5 6 (2.25%) Cisco CUCM
6 4 (1.50%) SCCM
6 4 (1.50%) SmoothWall
6 4 (1.50%) WSUS
7 3 (1.12%) Argo
7 3 (1.12%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.37%) OpenView
8 1 (0.37%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 142 (53.18%) Microsoft
2 53 (19.85%) Cisco
3 24 (8.99%) VMware
4 22 (8.24%) Apple
5 20 (7.49%) Meraki
6 14 (5.24%) Sophos
7 10 (3.75%) Google
7 10 (3.75%) Ubiquiti
8 9 (3.37%) Fortinet
8 9 (3.37%) Yealink
9 8 (3.00%) Genesys
9 8 (3.00%) Logitech
9 8 (3.00%) Verint
10 6 (2.25%) Adobe
10 6 (2.25%) HP
10 6 (2.25%) Oracle
10 6 (2.25%) TP-LINK
10 6 (2.25%) Veeam
11 5 (1.87%) SAP
11 5 (1.87%) SonicWALL